to join the conversation, like >>on facebook very wirz -- facebook. >> confederate captain henry wirz. as a concept of war crimes established as a result of the talk, this half hour long is a portion of the 2014 war symposium, hosted by the civil war society. >> your next speaker is me. having just introduced myself i will not do it again. i will say that because of the vagaries of the world of the u.s. senate, we will try to get out of here at 4:30 instead of 4:45 and i will speak a truncated version of my talk so that michael moore and burke can have the full, allotted time he has been promised. both of us will be talking about andersonville and the trial of henry wirz. during the civil war, frank leslie illustrated and published this set of photographs on the front page and as you can see, all of them are soldiers that have just come back from prisoner of war camps, looking like nothing that americans had ever seen, and in fact looking like people that americans or the world would mostly not see again until the end of world war ii, when people came out of places like auschwitz. the

they condemn wirz for saying these local women must be traitors because they want to bring vegetables to the union soldiers. so, i think yes, people at least within the vicinity of andersonville have to know what is going on. the stench alone must have been enormous. that is the other thing. it is hard to imagine how you could get anywhere near andersonville without being fully aware that there is a horror show there. one more hand here. >> [indiscernible] >> could you wait for the -- >> anyone interested in history -- about the holocaust, there is the scene in poland. the camp was in the distance. the gas chambers. they interviewed all of these people -- no, they did not smell anything, they did not know anything. >> the great olfactory collapse in poland. i am out of time, and as i said for all of the other papers, i guess mine qualifies as well, a good paper is where you can't answer all the questions. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> you're watching american history tv. 40 hours of progra